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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Youngkin pulls ahead of McAuliffe among Virginia likely voters  —  The race is largely focused on education, and this has energized Republicans  —  Concha: McAuliffe, Biden fixate on Trump in desperate attempt to win Virginia race  —  Republican Glenn Youngkin has moved ahead …
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Pence wades into school debate roiling Va governor's race  —  PURCELLVILLE, Va. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday hailed activist parents who are decrying school curriculums as un-American, equating instruction on the effects of institutional racism with “state-sponsored racism” …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:   Glenn Youngkin Was a Traditional Republican. Then He Became a Culture Warrior.
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Terry McAuliffe Hires Controversial Ex-Clinton Lawyer Marc Elias
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Holy cow: Youngkin 53, McAuliffe 45 in new Fox News poll
Wall Street Journal:
The Facts on Trump's Fraud Letter  —  His 2020 monomania is news, and it reflects on his fitness for 2024.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  The progressive parsons of the press are aflutter that we published a letter to the editor Thursday from former President Trump, objecting …
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:   Chris Cuomo avoids mentioning brother's sex crime charge on CNN show
Brendan J. Lyons / Albany Times Union:
Criminal summons erroneously issued against former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo
New York Post:
Ex-Gov. Cuomo to be charged over alleged groping of former aide: source
Politico:
Weary Dems keep reliving Infrastructure Week  —  House liberals left the Capitol triumphant on Thursday night after once again scuttling a major vote.  Every other Democrat was fuming.  —  For the second time in less than a month, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team had to delay …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Biden Can't Quite Close the Deal—with His Own Party  —  “Everybody's on board,” the President said.  But they weren't, at least not yet.  —  On Thursday, before flying off to Rome for a week of international summitry, Joe Biden began the day by telling his closest allies on Capitol Hill …
Hunter Walker / The Uprising:
Sources: Nancy Pelosi ‘Kicked Out’ Of Meeting With House Progressive Caucus Amid Tense Budget Talks
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Jason Koebler / VICE:
Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company  —  Facebook's new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it's done to our existing reality.  —  Jason Koebler  —  Moments before announcing Facebook …
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Emily Birnbaum / Politico:
Facebook's meta-problem on Capitol Hill
Discussion: Variety, Raw Story, The Dispatch and Wired
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Administration in Talks to Pay Hundreds of Millions to Immigrant Families Separated at Border  —  Government is considering payments of $450,000 per person affected by Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy in 2018 for asylum seekers illegally crossing border
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Family Members Separated at Border May Each Get Up to $450,000
Discussion: Political Wire and The Daily Wire
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Chief federal judge in D.C. assails ‘almost schizophrenic’ Jan. 6 prosecutions: ‘The rioters were not mere protesters’  —  The chief judge presiding over the federal court in Washington on Thursday unleashed a blistering critique of the Justice Department's prosecution of Capitol rioters …
Discussion: Insider, Raw Story and Althouse
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Politico:
New Capitol Police document shows how unprepared they were for Jan. 6 riots
Discussion: Raw Story
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Former lawmakers urge court to reject Trump effort to stymie Jan. 6 committee  —  Sixty-six former lawmakers, including two dozen Republicans, have signed on to a legal brief urging a federal judge to reject former President Donald Trump's effort to block Jan. 6 investigators from accessing his White House's records.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Jan. 6 committee allows Trump DOJ official to postpone appearance after he loses his lawyer  —  Jeffrey Clark, the Trump-era Justice Department official who sought to support President Donald Trump's false claims of massive voting fraud in the 2020 election, has received a postponement …
Discussion: CNN, KTVZ-TV, Raw Story, The Hill and HuffPost
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
For First Time in Public, a Detainee Describes Torture at C.I.A. Black Sites  —  In a sentencing hearing, Majid Khan, a Pakistani who lived in suburban Baltimore before joining Al Qaeda, detailed dungeonlike conditions and episodes of abuse.  —  GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba …
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Air Force is first to face troops' rejection of vaccine mandate as thousands avoid shots  —  Up to 12,000 Air Force personnel have rejected orders to get fully vaccinated against the coronavirus despite a Pentagon mandate, and officials say it is too late for them to do so by the Tuesday deadline …
Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
White Supremacists Used Racist Slurs And Cursed In Bizarre Opening Statements For The Charlottesville Trial  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — “Check.  Check.  Check,” neo-Nazi shock jock Christopher Cantwell spoke into the courtroom microphone.  —  Wearing a blue shirt without a tie or jacket …
Discussion: Washington Post, Slate and Raw Story
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
He's Writing Tucker's Deranged Jan. 6 Movie—After Directing a Pizzagater's Opus  —  Beyond Tucker's bonkers new “documentary” about the Capitol riot, Scooter Downey has made movies for other hate-mongers on the far right.  —  The writer of Tucker Carlson's controversial documentary series …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Washington Post
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Racine County sheriff accuses Wisconsin Elections Commission of breaking election law in nursing homes  —  Molly Beck Patrick Marley Ricardo TorresMilwaukee Journal Sentinel  —  YORKVILLE - The Racine County sheriff is accusing the Wisconsin Elections Commission of breaking state law …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why Joe Biden already won  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BIDEN GETS IT DONE, DESPITE HIMSELF — To say Thursday was a roller coaster for President JOE BIDEN's agenda wouldn't do justice to how truly head-spinning the day was.  The White House releases a Build Back Better (BBB) …
Emma Goldberg / New York Times:
The 37-Year-Olds Are Afraid of the 23-Year-Olds Who Work for Them  —  Twenty-somethings rolling their eyes at the habits of their elders is a longstanding trend, but many employers said there's a new boldness in the way Gen Z dictates taste.  —  As a millennial with a habit of lurking on TikTok …
Discussion: Gawker and The Dispatch
Robert Faturechi / ProPublica:
Burr's Brother-in-Law Called Stock Broker, One Minute After Getting Off Phone With Senator  —  According to the SEC, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, then chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, had material nonpublic information about coronavirus impact.
Christopher F. Rufo / City Journal:
“White People, You Are the Problem”  —  AT&T's new racial reeducation program promotes the idea that “racism is a uniquely white trait.”  —  Economy, finance, and budgets  —  The Social Order  —  AT&T Corporation has created a racial reeducation program that promotes the idea that …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Judge Says GOP Congressman Can't Be Left Alone With Evidence  —  The judge was so concerned that Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) might compromise the case that he prohibited Fortenberry from looking at the evidence against him by himself.  —  After Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) …
 
 
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Josh Hawley / New York Times:
The Only Way to Solve Our Supply Chain Crisis Is to Rethink Trade
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
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New York Times:
New York Braces for Worker Shortage as Vaccination Deadline Nears
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
In battle at Supreme Court over N.Y. gun law, a surprising split among conservatives
Monica Showalter / American Thinker:
Is Jill Biden asking about a ‘process’ for removing Kamala Harris?
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Ideologues exist on the left and the right. Only one side threatens the country.
Brian Karem / Salon:
Dumbass nation: Our biggest national security problem is America's “vast and militant ignorance”
 Earlier Items: 
Maureen Breslin / The Hill:
Trump campaign sells 'Let's Go Brandon' T-shirts
Discussion: KTVX-TV and [your]NEWS
Jeff E. Schapiro / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Linwood Holton, Virginia's first GOP governor of the 20th century, who embraced civil rights, dies at 98
Discussion: Associated Press, Insider and WTOP
David Weigel / Washington Post:
The Trailer: Not just Virginia: From county to county, an off-year battle for the suburbs
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Democracy's sudden peril was an inside-job
Jay Caspian Kang / New York Times:
The Reductive Practice of Assigning Book Reviews by Identity
Jonathan Oosting / Bridge Michigan:
Voting machine missing after Michigan clerk stripped of election power
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Jacob Silverman / New York Magazine:
Inside Jedi Blue, Facebook's Secret Deal With Google
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads
 
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